Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing – serie
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Reimagining the Family
Lesbian Mothering in Contemporary French Literature
Av Robert Payne
Häftad, 2021
783 kr
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«Reimagining the Family is a ground-breaking volume that brings together important literary voices. Robert Payne explores literary representations of lesbian mothering with sensitivity, depth and rigour. This highly innovative, well-researched and well-written book will be essential reading for …
Feminine Plural
Women in Transition in Luso-Hispanic Life-Writing
Av Claire Williams, Maria-José Blanco
Häftad, 2026
739 kr
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‘Feminine Plural shows that a revolution is taking place in literature written in Portuguese and Spanish. After many years of being silenced by dictatorships, colonial injustice, and systemic problems of access to education, women from the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America are not only making …
Grrrl Writing
Virginie Despentes’s Authorial Politics
Häftad, 2026
591 kr
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"This excellent volume—the first book-length study in English on Despentes’s writing—is rich, timely and insightful. Schaal’s rigorous analysis contextualises Despentes’s work carefully in relation to contemporary writing and thought, highlighting its intersections with gender theory, in …
Mothers Voicing Mothering?
The Representation of Motherhood in the Novels and Short Stories of Marie NDiaye
Häftad, 2021
783 kr
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Mothers and mothering are significant features of contemporary women’s writing in France and mothers are narrators and key protagonists in nearly all Marie NDiaye’s novels and short stories. These mothers rarely strike the reader as attractive personalities and, in their mothering role, are …
Frank French Feminisms
Sex, Sexuality and the Body in the Work of Ernaux, Huston and Arcan
Av Polly Galis
Häftad, 2023
755 kr
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«In this important comparative study, Polly Galis provides an illuminating – and frank – examination of the feminist tensions inherent in the inclusive and often transgressive modalities of female sexuality put forward by Nancy Huston, Nelly Arcan and Annie Ernaux, writers whose work subversively …
Poetics of Becoming
Women’s Poetry in Italy’s Long Seventies
Av Roberto Binetti, Adalgisa Giorgio m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
804 kr
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‘Making original use of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of "minor literature" and its power to shift boundaries and enable new forms of becoming, Roberto Binetti reads the work of Italian women poets who transform the contours of lyric poetry and its political valencies. An exemplary account of how …
Women Writing War
The Life-writing of the Algerian «moudjahidate»
Av Caroline E. Kelley, Gill Rye
Häftad, 2019
784 kr
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Women Writing War focuses on the life-writing of the moudjahidate, the women veterans of the Algerian war of independence (1954–1962). The author offers close readings of memoir, testimonial, poetry and drama by Jacqueline Guerroudj, Louisette Ighilahriz, Anna Gréki, Zhor Zerari and Myriam Ben, all …
Representing Repulsion
The Aesthetics of Disgust in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French and German
Av Katie Jones
Häftad, 2013
1178 kr
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Disgust is a strong, immediate visceral reaction. While it may feel like a purely instinctive response, the cultural meanings ascribed to particular objects, bodies or behaviours play a significant role in determining whether or not they are experienced as disgusting. This interplay between bodies …
Experiment and Experience
Women’s Writing in France 2000–2010
Häftad, 2013
920 kr
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Experiment and Experience is a collection of critical essays on twenty-first-century women-authored literature in France. In particular, the volume focuses on how contemporary women’s writing engages creatively with socio-political issues and real-life experiences. Authors covered include …
Strange Adventures
Women’s Individuation in the Works of Pierrette Fleutiaux
Häftad, 2016
1912 kr
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Strange Adventures examines portrayals of womanhood in the works of prize-winning French author Pierrette Fleutiaux. Fleutiaux’s refreshing pictures of womanhood offer insights into how women can become more whole, substantial and free in themselves and in their relationships, as well as how they …
Voicing Voluntary Childlessness
Narratives of Non-Mothering in French
Häftad, 2015
903 kr
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The decision to reject motherhood is the subject of several key works of literature in French since the new millennium. This book looks at first-person accounts of voluntary childlessness by women writing in French. The book explores how women narrate their decision not to mother, the issues that …
Nina Bouraoui, Autofiction and the Search for Selfhood
Häftad, 2016
863 kr
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The motif of the ‘identity quest’ features strongly in much contemporary French women’s writing, but nowhere more so than in the work of Nina Bouraoui. Author of numerous books since 1991 and winner of the 2005 Prix Renaudot, Bouraoui persistently explores the question of self-expression in her …
Feminism, Writing and the Media in Spain
Ana María Matute, Rosa Montero and Lucía Etxebarria
Av Mazal Oaknín, Gill Rye
Häftad, 2019
810 kr
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This book explores the different treatment of writing by women andwriting by men in twenty-first-century Spain. Focusing on contemporarySpanish authors Ana María Matute (1926–2014), Rosa Montero (1952–),and Lucía Etxebarria (1966–), the author examines how Spanish womenwriters are marketed in Spain …
Starvation, Food Obsession and Identity
Eating Disorders in Contemporary Women’s Writing
Av Petra M. Bagley, Francesca Calamita m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
1024 kr
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Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and troubled relationships with food and bodies have been depicted by writers across a variety of languages and cultures, since before the medicalisation of eating disorders in the late nineteenth century to the present day. This cross-cultural volume explores the …
Voicing Voluntary Childlessness
Narratives of Non-Mothering in French
Häftad, 2015
891 kr
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